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Yeats Quotes

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico Garcia Lorca.

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico Garcia Lorca.

Leonard Cohen
Hero, Two, Yeats

I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.

John Berryman
Writing, Want, Yeats

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

Howard Nemerov
Writing, Literature, Yeats

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

Anne Stevenson
Book, Frost, Yeats

When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.

Jean-Luc Godard
Talking, Yeats, Said
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

Hector Hugh Munro
Hammocks, Stories, Yeats
Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.420, Delphi Classics

Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.

Hal Duncan
Jeter, Fiction, Yeats

The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back.

David Nicholls
Facts, Yeats, Wilde
David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.233, Villard

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